throwawayspeccy

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   by throwawayspeccy 12y ago

   Programmers were using cooperative threading for decades before Go made the concept popular with the web crowd.
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   by throwawayspeccy 12y ago

   You're right, decades of experience are also very important (though there are youngsters starting on platforms like the NES or TI graphing calculators doing cool stuff as well). I'm not sure I agree about toolchains, though. The 6
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   by throwawayspeccy 12y ago

   Official NES mappers allowed up to 1 megabyte of ROM (512kb program ROM, 512kb graphics ROM). I can't really imagine needing more than that for an NES game. Yes, theoretically you could stick an ARM processor in a cartridge and run mos
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   by throwawayspeccy 12y ago

   In Battletoads, Rare went a step further and kept only a single frame for each player loaded in CHR RAM, copying over it for each frame of animation. As for mappers, the 6502 (along with most other 8-bit CPUs from that era) has 16 address l
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   by throwawayspeccy 12y ago

   I don't think fancy algorithms and data structures are common or particularly useful in retrocomputing. I think it's primarily because programs were written back then under strict time and financial constraints, whereas now retrop